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When I was in Asia over winter break, I picked up several of these cute little beaded flower decorations for wedding purposes in various colors. I am also testing them out to see if they’d be a good inventory item for my business. They also make great corsage alternatives!
Materials:
-3 x 9 pillar candle or any desired size
-1 beaded flower decoration
-2 corsage pins
Directions:
1. Peel wrapper off center pillar candle (the one you and your fiance will light together).
2. Wrap beaded flower decoration with ribbon around the candle
3. Secure in place with 2 corsage pins - push them in all the way so only the rounded heads are seen on the backside of the candle.
4. The End!
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Here’s a picture of the same item in action as a corsage:
Let me know what you think! Should I continue to carry this item in my inventory? Would you buy this/use this? Feedback please!
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They are unique. I can’t say I have ever seen anyone with this at their weddings. I wouldn’t use them personally only because the white on white seems a little too plain for me. And if they are going to be up on an alter they would be hard for guests to see anyways. But I see where they could easily match the bodice of someones dress so that would be neat.
Honestly, they seem a little busy to me. Although I could see taking them apart and doing things with the different pieces.
I personally like them a lot but I can’t imagine my mom or my grandma liking them (and they would be the ones to wear them). They’re definitely more traditional so having anything but a standard real bloom would stir some lifted eyebrows.
For other ideas they can also be used as a hairpiece instead of a fresh flower or to secure a sash on a wedding gown or bridesmaid’s dress.
I like them for the unity candle, but not as a corsage. Too big in my opinion (I once had a huge corsage that I wound up just taking off in the middle of prom because it was huge and distracting…)
Next up: how to make a memorial candle? [Can you tell what I've been shopping for lately :)]
They look a little cheesy to me so perhaps if you accent it with something else, they will look better.
it doesn’t look good. maybe on the candle..but not as a corsage.
its sort of ugly…
not as a corsage…not enough color to bring out the details in the beading. too big as a one piece for the candles….
I love the idea, but, not this design, and not in white…. maybe if I could get it in my wedding colors…
I think it looks adorable on the candle but I don’t think I’d ever use the corsage.
The concept is good but this particular beaded cluster is not the most attractive. Maybe something with more variation, more airy, more contemporary?
A smaller daintier/finer version might actually sell as a corsage if they are marketed for people who are allergic to flowers? A corsage-bracelet of sorts?
It looks pretty old school to me and I definitely don’t care for it as a corsage. On the candle, not bad…but I love beaded gaudiness. Maybe that should be a hint. 
I think it looks nice on the candle but not on a wrist.
humm…very 80’s. i’d pass on it.
haha so I guess the majority of people don’t like them. thanks for the feedback! 
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Mrs. Plum, Dallas
Age and Occupation in 06: 22, Accountant by day/Floral and Event Designer by night and weekends
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 24, Security Admin
Engagement Date: December 31, 2004
Wedding Date: June 29, 2007
Venue: Marie Gabrielle Restaurant and Gardens
About Me: I have been engaged for about two years now - yes, a long engagement, because my fiance and I wanted to wait until I graduated college, which I did this past summer! He proposed after dating just two months - crazy, I know, but 2 years later, here we are, still crazy in love :-). We are having not one, but TWO weddings and TWO receptions in one weekend - American-style and Vietnamese-style - in Dallas, Texas, where I was born and raised!
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